Unable to mount Floppy Disk

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ave13co

Unable to mount Floppy Disk

Post by ave13co »

Just finished installing Mint 14 Nadia. Formatted harddrive and downloaded iso from this site.
Whats the deal with the floppy on my system? First thing after booting to new install and I see the following.....

Unable to mount Floppy Disk

Error mounting system-managed device /dev/fd0: Command-line `mount "/media/floppy0"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

Thanks in advance..ave13co :?:
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cwsnyder

Re: Unable to mount Floppy Disk

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First, do you actually have a floppy drive installed in your computer? Second, was said floppy drive working under your previous operating system?
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Re: Unable to mount Floppy Disk

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Please run this command in terminal to mount your floppy:

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udisks --mount /dev/fd0
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Re: Unable to mount Floppy Disk

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Another thing to check is whether there is a floppy interface enabled in the BIOS even if there's no actual drive in the machine.
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Re: Unable to mount Floppy Disk

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remoulder wrote:Another thing to check is whether there is a floppy interface enabled in the BIOS even if there's no actual drive in the machine.
That was the tip I needed to fix the problem on my VMware virtual machine: it had no floppy drive but the VM's BIOS thought that it did. Thanks!
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Re: Unable to mount Floppy Disk

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@ave13co, if you are still having this issue, please open a terminal and copy/paste here the output of lsmod
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Re: Unable to mount Floppy Disk

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Further info at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1054414 particularly #42/43. The issue may be fixed when the updates filter down
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Re: Unable to mount Floppy Disk

Post by Anto »

Hello,
Gord wrote:
remoulder wrote:Another thing to check is whether there is a floppy interface enabled in the BIOS even if there's no actual drive in the machine.
That was the tip I needed to fix the problem on my VMware virtual machine: it had no floppy drive but the VM's BIOS thought that it did. Thanks!
I think I'm facing exactly the same issue: but how did you access your VMware Bios ? I'm hammering the F2 key during the VM's startup, but can't access it.
Gord

Re: Unable to mount Floppy Disk

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Anto wrote:
Gord wrote:
remoulder wrote:Another thing to check is whether there is a floppy interface enabled in the BIOS even if there's no actual drive in the machine.
That was the tip I needed to fix the problem on my VMware virtual machine: it had no floppy drive but the VM's BIOS thought that it did. Thanks!
I think I'm facing exactly the same issue: but how did you access your VMware Bios ? I'm hammering the F2 key during the VM's startup, but can't access it.
It can be a bit tricky because keyboard input needs to be directed to the virtual machine. The most reliable way to do it is to restart the virtual machine and not click anything outside the VM window while it reboots. That way the keyboard remains "connected" to the VM and passes your [F2] to the VM BIOS so you can get into the Setup menus. (You can do it on the initial boot but you have to make sure that you click inside the VM window at just the right moment before the setup prompt goes away.)
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Re: Unable to mount Floppy Disk

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Anto wrote:Hello,
Gord wrote:
remoulder wrote:Another thing to check is whether there is a floppy interface enabled in the BIOS even if there's no actual drive in the machine.
That was the tip I needed to fix the problem on my VMware virtual machine: it had no floppy drive but the VM's BIOS thought that it did. Thanks!
I think I'm facing exactly the same issue: but how did you access your VMware Bios ? I'm hammering the F2 key during the VM's startup, but can't access it.
I use VMWare Workstation 8, there is a menu item /Power->Power On to BIOS
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Re: Unable to mount Floppy Disk

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remoulder wrote:Further info at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1054414 particularly #42/43. The issue may be fixed when the updates filter down
Thanks for that. I got the error message the OP mentions after installing Nadia 14 MATE, and I do have a real floppy installed on my physical system. Simply blacklisting the "floppy" module in /etc/modprobe.d stopped the error message. Of course, I can no longer mount a floppy disk, but then it was hardly ever used anyway. :wink:
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Re: Unable to mount Floppy Disk

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Gord wrote:
Anto wrote:
Gord wrote:That was the tip I needed to fix the problem on my VMware virtual machine: it had no floppy drive but the VM's BIOS thought that it did. Thanks!
I think I'm facing exactly the same issue: but how did you access your VMware Bios ? I'm hammering the F2 key during the VM's startup, but can't access it.
It can be a bit tricky because keyboard input needs to be directed to the virtual machine. The most reliable way to do it is to restart the virtual machine and not click anything outside the VM window while it reboots. That way the keyboard remains "connected" to the VM and passes your [F2] to the VM BIOS so you can get into the Setup menus. (You can do it on the initial boot but you have to make sure that you click inside the VM window at just the right moment before the setup prompt goes away.)
This did the trick nicely for VMware Fusion 5. :D I disabled the fdd in the the VMware Bios. No more "Unable to mount Floppy Disk" error message in Linux Mint 14.1.

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johnston73

Re: Unable to mount Floppy Disk

Post by johnston73 »

+1
Gord wrote:
remoulder wrote:Another thing to check is whether there is a floppy interface enabled in the BIOS even if there's no actual drive in the machine.
That was the tip I needed to fix the problem on my VMware virtual machine: it had no floppy drive but the VM's BIOS thought that it did. Thanks!
oxman

Re: Unable to mount Floppy Disk

Post by oxman »

My problem is that my floppy also is used to mount other types of memory storage devices such as SD or mini SD.
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